[url=http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080103_olbermann_slams_new_york_times/]Olbermann Slams New York Times[/url]

The New York Times made it onto Keith Olbermann’s “worst person” list with the news that the paper had hired William Kristol: “You guys at the Times can hire any conservative columnist you want, but why did you pick the really dumb one?”

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The New York Times made it onto Keith Olbermann’s “worst person” list with the news that the paper had hired William Kristol: “You guys at the Times can hire any conservative columnist you want, but why did you pick the really dumb one?”

January 7, 2008 -- 12:40 PM EST // //So those critics who argued against the appointment of Bill Kristol as a New York Times columnist because of the quality of his work -- rather than merely because of ideology -- will now have yet more proof that they were on to something.

That's because it looks as if Kristol's first column will already require a correction: Kristol seems to have attributed a quote to the wrong author.

In the column, Kristol quotes Michelle Malkin as follows:

Still, as the conservative writer Michelle Malkin put it, “For the work-hard-to-get-ahead strivers who represent the heart and soul of the G.O.P., there are obvious, powerful points of identification.”

Only Malkin is now claiming that she didn't write this. Instead, she notes, the quote actually comes from Michael Medved:...

work-hard-to-get-ahead strivers who represent the heart and soul of the G.O.P.

Actually that must be an inside joke, eh? Most of the people I know who are Rs are not work-hard-to-get-ahead people. They are cronies, even in small places like this. They just love to hate people who do not have the advantages they have themselves.